mechanical solidarity

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noun Sociology.

social cohesiveness that is based on shared activities, beliefs, and experiences and is characteristic of simple traditional societies.

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Newspapers around Europe have also done so in solidarity with the slain.
Why We Stand With Charlie Hebdo—And You Should Too|John Avlon|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The world should stand in solidarity with him and the many other victims of the Assad regime.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015|Movements.Org|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But it will take more than superficial solidarity to dismantle those structures and the ideologies that birthed them.
Jamie Foxx: Get Over the Black ‘Annie’|Stereo Williams|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The culture of solidarity for teachers as workers prevented acknowledging some teachers as more accomplished than others.
Your Local School Doesn’t Have to Suck|Michael S. Roth|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the preceding chapter an examination has been made of the purely mechanical side of the era of machine production.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The approach of these mechanical monsters opens up vistas thronged with shadowy forebodings.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Go carefully over the film with an oil-immersion lens, using a mechanical stage if available.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The door to the back room opened, letting through a blend of talk and small mechanical noises.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
The experience of the war has enormously increased this sense of social solidarity.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock